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Re: Please support CP932. (I have problem using subversion with SJIS)


On Jan 27 06:28, Andy Koppe wrote:
> 2010/1/27 Kazuhiro Fujieda:
> > The default character encoding in the Japanese locale has become
> > UTF-8 in other POSIX systems. In most of all Linux distributions,
> > the default is UTF-8. In OpenSolaris, the default is also UTF-8.
> 
> Are you saying that plain "ja_JP" without an explicit charset implies
> UTF-8 there? Or are they setting the locale to "ja_JP.UTF-8"?

Right, even in the latest Glibc release 2.11, the default for "ja_JP"
(no charset!) is EUC-JP.  UTF-8 is only used if you set LANG to
"ja_JP.UTF-8".

> > I believe there is no need to change the default in Cygwin to EUC-JP.
> 
> Just to stress this again: Cygwin 1.7's default is and remains UTF-8.

Good point.


Corinna

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